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Students are expected to achieve the following characteristics and attributes by the completion of their program:

Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to arrive at sound and effective clinical judgments.
• Provide culturally competent patient-centered care to individuals, families, groups, and communities.
• Provide safe, comprehensive, high quality, and technologically competent care for diverse populations.
• Integrate concepts of inter and intra-professional communication, holism, health promotion, and disease prevention in the delivery of primary health care.
• Establish community partnerships promoting health from a local through global perspective.
• Integrate nursing theory and research in an evidence-based approach to nursing practice.
• Demonstrate accountability for the legal and ethical principles of professional nursing practice in a socially responsible manner.
• Utilize leadership skills and strategies to promote quality patient care.

Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

• Use theory from wide range of disciplines to facilitate and provide primary health care.
• Provide culturally competent, holistic health care that affirms human diversity and commonalities and addresses the concerns of aggregates.
• Evaluate the health of individuals, families, groups, and communities using ecological and global perspectives.
• Initiate change to improve nursing practice and primary healthcare delivery.
• Apply theory, research, and other accepted forms of evidence to provide evidence-based practice.
• Manage human, fiscal, and other healthcare resources to provide high quality, cost-effective care.
• Demonstrate skill in collaboration and leadership within the context of interdisciplinary healthcare systems and policy arenas.
• Demonstrate accountability for ethical decision-making in the provision of primary health care.

Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

• Synthesize relevant theories from a variety of disciplines to develop frameworks for culturally competent, evidence-based advanced practice nursing in primary health care.
• Guide the provision of culturally competent evidence-based primary health care to individuals and populations in a variety of primary health care practice settings.
• Evaluate evidence related to clinical, educational, cultural, and organizational issues, needs and challenges to recommend a course of action for best practices in primary health care.
• Design mentorship roles in primary health care clinical practice in the development, implementation and evaluation of culturally competent, evidence-based best practice protocols and projects.
• Integrate relevant information technology to support culturally competent, evidence-based primary health care delivery.
• Create change in health policy using the best available evidence with a culturally competent primary health care perspective.
• Develop collaborations with other disciplines and essential stakeholders to provide culturally competent, best practices in primary health care.